by Bryan | Apr 28, 2010 | City on Stage, Writing New York
We’re nearing the end of the semester in our Writing New York class. Many years we’ve concluded with Kushner’s Angels in America. This year we still have Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker to discuss, and so this morning I don’t feel quite...
by Cyrus | Apr 21, 2011 | City on Stage, Writing New York
Two years ago, I wrote a post here, entitled “The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial,” about using the idea of fallibilism to think about Kushner’s two-part play, Angels in America (1992-95). Today, I’d like to share a few additional ideas about...
by Bryan | Apr 20, 2011 | City on Stage, Film, Writing New York
We’re closing in on the end of our Writing New York semester with some texts that explore utopian and dystopian elements of New York City at the end of the 20th century and start of the 21st. When we first taught this course in 2003, most students hadn’t...
by Bryan | Aug 26, 2013 | Books, Writing New York
From its first sentence I had a hunch that Teju Cole’s Open City (2011) would have been a perfect fit for the Writing New York syllabus Cyrus and I tinkered with for almost a decade, and when we eventually take up the course again — Inshalla — I take...
by pwhny | May 1, 2011 | Microblogging
Wrapping up ANGELS IN AMERICA in #wny11 today. # @_waterman on Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA today. #wny11 # Opening music: Talking Heads, 1978-79 "Thank you for Sending Me an Angel," "Cities," and "Heaven." #wny11 #...
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